We pushed the backwall of the house 14 feet out on the first floor. This gave gave my Dad a bigger bedroom on the first floor along with room for his own walk-in closet, his own bathroom and a powder room in the hallway.
It also gave us another room behind the kitchen. We used to have a dining room and a small kitchen but when we remodeled our kitchen about nine years ago, we merged the two rooms together to give us a big eat-in kitchen.
When we had our little cape cod with walk-up attic, I held all my Creative Memories scrapbooking workshops upstairs. It was nice to have a separate area for my business. But with the remodel, we put all bedrooms and bathrooms upstairs so I needed a new space for my workshop area.
The new room behind the kitchen has lots of names. The floor plan calls it a family room. To the contractors, I call it a dining room. To everyone else familiar with my Creative Memories business, I call it my crop room/office. One thing I wanted was lots and lots of light so the electrician installed 9 recessed lights with silver canisters for even more reflection.
It's also big enough to serve dinner in there, so I wanted to have a nice fixture over my workshop/dining table. Since I have so much lighting from the recessed lights, I decided to go with a candle chandelier. And no, I don't mean a chandelier with lights in the shape of candles, I mean a chandelier with real candles.
It also gave us another room behind the kitchen. We used to have a dining room and a small kitchen but when we remodeled our kitchen about nine years ago, we merged the two rooms together to give us a big eat-in kitchen.
When we had our little cape cod with walk-up attic, I held all my Creative Memories scrapbooking workshops upstairs. It was nice to have a separate area for my business. But with the remodel, we put all bedrooms and bathrooms upstairs so I needed a new space for my workshop area.
The new room behind the kitchen has lots of names. The floor plan calls it a family room. To the contractors, I call it a dining room. To everyone else familiar with my Creative Memories business, I call it my crop room/office. One thing I wanted was lots and lots of light so the electrician installed 9 recessed lights with silver canisters for even more reflection.
It's also big enough to serve dinner in there, so I wanted to have a nice fixture over my workshop/dining table. Since I have so much lighting from the recessed lights, I decided to go with a candle chandelier. And no, I don't mean a chandelier with lights in the shape of candles, I mean a chandelier with real candles.
I found two that I like at illuminations.com. I'm leaning towards the one on the left because it is bigger and will look better in the room.
When I tell people I am putting in a candle chandelier and they finally understand what I am talking about, the majority of people respond vehemently with: You're gonna burn down your house! It really is so similar to the way everybody told poor Ralphie (A Christmas Story) that he was gonna shoot his eye out.
So for those of you who think I will burn down my house, here are a few facts about candles and candle chandeliers. First of all, these are little itty bitty tea lights -- not huge fat pillar candles. Tealights are self-extinguishing and usually burn for 4 hours. If you buy good quality tealights like the ones available from PartyLite, they will burn clean -- i.e. no sooty residue will be left behind. One person commented that it will be hard to dust -- well, it won't be any harder to dust than any other type of chandelier and maybe even a little bit easier because those little glass votive holders come out and can be washed. And for those of you that say it won't give off enough light...don't forget there are 9 recessed lights in the room (with silver canisters for even more reflection) and btw, they are on a dimmer so we don't have to have blindingly bright light all the time.
And if you're still concerned, well, we do have home owner's insurance :-)
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2 comments:
i also like the one on the left, and i dont think you will shoot your eye out - go with it and stick to your decision - your crazy sister in law
Wow, people have a lot of opinions. The chandeliers are beautiful.
-LM
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